softbank is not in talks to acquire clearwire. however, sprint, which already owns about 48%, 49% of the company, is in talks to do the same. to acquire clearwire as part of this deal. a very complex deal as you can see. softbank does have a need for sprint to have control of clearwire's board. it does appear that sprint is going about that by having discussions aimed at acquiring clearwire, which while it does own a lot of, does not own the majority of. some of which is still held by cable companies and the like including, of course, as well, some public shareholders. did want to clarify that when it comes to clearwire. finally, of course, we've seen shares of sprint pc -- excuse me. metro pcs down sharply today. i can tell you sprint did not consider a bid to come over the top in a deal that has been done between t-mobile and metro pcs as had been reported by some other outlets last week. as i have been reporting, t-mobile was an important component of these talks when they first began this summer between both t-mobile and sprin